bertha coombs starts us off with the chall fgesing walgreen's. >> walgreen's called this the most difficulter the n company has since the merger with boot alliance in 2014. >> and we hadec been e and preparing for impacted usif siantly more quickly than we anticipated. >> results in the pharmacy divion were hurt by lower price increases on brand-name drugs and generics than had been expected. analysts say that's in part due to pressure fromto washi on drug prices. >> brand inflation normally starts in the beginning of every year and we're used to seeing that in the 10% to 15% range and as,ou kno media pressure and congressional pressure has landed on the pharmaceutical manufacturers, inflation rate has dropped about 5%. lower priced increases meant lower profit margins for walgreen's. the company company's taking steps to cut costs whileim at t same focusing on adding new health options in store. >> one is driving the very important core business ofar cy in sales, and there's no changes there apart from driving that more directly and secondly to look at future profit streams and it isealth

i would soul search if i am walgreens right now.hy did target manage to beat amazon th they're not on the case. larry merlo, look, we got to buy in we got to be a healthcare store. house tobacco, guys. >> in the retail sales number we got yesterday, clicks over take brick the first time on record as total retail. >> i think other than ollie's bargain score that you did not have on the omni channel >> these numbers indicate a dramatic decline of the number of people going to walgreens where are they going we got people coming in from aetna when they do the remodels, where are they going from walgreens? they're not going across the street it is entirely possible that they are going to walmart. it is much more likely they're going to amazon. when you see the amazon number is up, you have to believe they are hurt these numbers are repulsive. honestly >> we'll mention more some of these price cuts of whole foods and what it may mean >> there you go. >> when we come back, the dow get as new member today. jim fitterling is going to join us

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the worstaying it was quarter for walgreens boots alliance. it is not getting as much cash for prescriptions on its en margins are getting squeezedd. . it is even doing partnerships with fedex, kroger, microsoft to no avail. it is going to try to cut cost even more. $1.5 billion is now the target. better news for airlines. they are a volatile breed, but today we were given a better outlook for earnings per share guidance. that is look at some stocks moving right now. guy: let's talk about what is happening with the pound story. the prime minister confronting her cabinet today with a potentially explosive plan to delay brexit for months. let's talk about how that is going to impact the foreign exchange market and u.k. economy. is no deal brexit increasingly the default option? >> i think it is. i think previously, the markets have under price that and perhaps for good reason given a parliament recently voted against that. in terms of u.k. law, the default option is no deal under the european withdrawal bill. yes, it is looking increasingly like

we are getting earnings from walgreens. second quarter adjusted earning $1.64, below the estimate of $1.72. interesting to see if sales are part of the problem given the merger and whether they can find synergy and develop off each other. david: in premarket trading they are down just under 1%. lisa: and they are cutting forecasts. david: it doesn't look good going forward. we know walgreens is forming all of these partnerships with humana and fedex, and it will take a while to see those kick in. lisa: net sales were very much in line. there is something else that has to do with cost savings or lack thereof. we will bring you more on that as we get it. in the meantime, let's get caught up on markets. we have kind of meandering markets looking for direction after yesterday's rally. nasdaq futures not doing anything. stocks in europe eking out again. stoxx --ching new -- stoxx in europe eking out a gain. crude reaching new 2019 heights. david: we are joined by peggy collins. this is a chart that illustrates something very int

old if you want to buy any tobacco products from walgreens or right aid. on notice in february accusing it of violating rules prohibiting selling cigarettes and other tobacco products to those who are underage. walgreens was one of the top violators when it comes to selling products to minors. the fda said 22% of walgreens locations were found to be selling those products to minors. this is walgreens, their effort to step up to put into place new policies. todd: i get it but if you fight and die for your country shouldn't you be able to have a smoke? todd: the underage one. jillian: starbucks is causing a stir, to install needle disposal boxes inside bathrooms. they have oregon up in 25 markets across the country. todd: the move is to protect the employees who clean those bathrooms but what do customers think? i took to the street to find out. starbucks has a new policy putting needle disposal boxes in its locations. do you think that is a good idea or bad idea? >> needle disposal boxes? i would say no. i don't know how sanitary that is. a bad idea. people

this is not walgreens.f you believe our economy bottomed, this company is a terrific operator and doesn't get the credit it deserves because management focuses on growing earnings rather than growing seas at any cost like wayfair. i say start measurining gary evy day. mason in louisiana mason. >> hey, jim, first time caller, long-time -- >> first time, long time >> caller: i have a question about dick's sporting goods. a couple of key concerns i would like to know if you think there is an inverse correlation between the video game industry and the sporting goods industry particularly sporting equipment sales, simply put, as the video game industry grow, less time playing actual sports. >> well, geez, okay. sorry, go ahead. >> caller: sorry second is the concern over the growth in northern american sales from nike and adidas, i think most of this concern is the outstanding quarter by lululemon taking larger slices out of the same pie that dick's eats from. lululemon's earnings report dropping reebok to focus

walgreens stock this morning a stock to watch.xpectations. there's the shares with sharp decline of 6.5%. the company lowering the forecast for earnings for 2019. oil is ticking up, prices are rising to a five-month high. banks lifting forecasts for the year ahead as well. and home sellers hurry up, new data says the first week of april is the best time to list your home. tom brady joins twitter, the patriot quarterback's very first tweet getting a lot of buzz this morning after april fools day and a joke he made. all those stories coming up. our top story this half hour, lyft shares hitting the brakes in the first full day of trading yesterday, the stock slid nearly 12% on lyft. the ipo was priced at $72 a share. joining us right right now is io analyst, kathleen smith. always a pleasure to see you. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. maria: we want to get to the year we're expecting. i know that these last couple of deals, lyft, levis, kicked off what's going to be a very, very strong, busy three or four months for the

walgreens having a disastrous day. a lot going on there. pharmacy benefit managers are not doing to well on the back of the walgreens alliance announcement. the s&p 500 airlines index is what i am watching. many individual airlines are flying high. delta upgraded its earnings-per-share guidance. it is looking pretty good. united, continental and american airlines all up as well. -- it is up 14.2%. we are going to be speaking with the ceo. he has been with the company of for 34 years. district so far is pretty positive with many buys so far. the airline sector looks pretty positive on your side of the pond, a little less so over your. -- here. we have seen the grounding of the 70 seven cents is more problems with fan blade that rolls-royce is experiencing with its engines. it was a boeing aircraft as well. european stocks trading session high. outperforming. most of europe up .5% today. the pound is under pressure. the brexit narrative, front and center. 130, but down by around .5%. in the let's bring "nchor of "what you missed? let's get to

in the meantime, a check on walgreens this hour weighing on the dow inc. the company higher on its debut into the group of 30 "power lunch" starts right now ♪ >> we begin this hour with breaking news. president trump's top economic adviser larry kudlow speaking at the chamber of commerce in washington our sara eisen is there live sara >> reporter: hi, melissa just before kudlow took the stage, i did have a chance to catch up with him as he entered the chamber and got some news about how the white house is thinking about shutting down the border listen >> we're watching it and looking for ways to allow the freight passage. some people call it truck roads and there are ways you can do that, which would ameliorate th breakdown in supply chains the president's positions on border security are well known i support them fully the numbers, hundreds of thousands of immigrants every month. it's crazy the question is, can we deal with that and not have any economic damage? i think the answer is we can and people are looking at different options, particularly,if you

walgreen's can't quit cigs and was kellogg sugar shamed >> and a great start to the year for the s&p. well above the 2815 range everybody watched over the course of the past six moments s&p 500 up about 1%. same for the nasdaq. very healthy gains overall one theme we're seeing play out year to date is the outperformance of growth or ents whied names over value oriented names. two etfs that illustrate that, russell 1,000 growth up 17% and the value etf up 12% you see that little discrepancy getting a little wider still young, but a trend to watch. and you mentioned lyft remember this stock got as high on its ipo day as $88.60 so since then, it was a 23% gain from the ipo price and now we're off roughly around 20% so far since the ipo highs. lyft search tcertainly the stoce day. >> thank you so much welcome to "the exchange." a key manufacturing gauge in china hit a six month high over the weekend. back here the ism's own manufacturing jumped over 55 and retail sales unexpectedly fell in february, but january was revised higher and krud crude is on the move an glass prices are 50 cents

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let's take a check on walgreens because walgreens boots alliance was almost all the dow's drop yesterdays alliance, not bouncing back today. that stock down fractionally again. >>> your next guest made a big splash right here on worldwide exchange a few weeks ago with a bold call on google. she started coverage with a buy and says the network effects are so powerful that you've got to buy the stock. as part of that, she's also worried about netflix. let's dive into that and talk about apple. joining us now is laura martin, managing director of needham and company. you were pretty tough on netflix when you were here, and i thought when you left -- i know all the netflix fan boys out there, you must have gotten some blowback from people saying don't talk about netflix >> i get hate mile when i say anything mean about it, i -- >> you too >> i don't even send you hate mail just -- >> i appreciate it you're the only one. thank you. i mean, what did people say? don't talk about net fliflix li that >> it's too far ahead. even though these companies have 50-year libraries. it's a global product.

walgreens will also increase the age requirement to 21 beginning september 1st.lier this year the fda put walgreens on notice for allegedly selling the products to minors. cvs stopped selling the tobacco products in 2014. >>> meanwhile kohl's will start accepting items for return to amazon. beginning in july, customers can return eligible amazon items. to more than 1,100 kohl stores nationwide. >>> and your supermarket might be keeping a very close eye on your. krogers and walgreens are testing built-in shelf cameras that try to guess your gender, age, your mood as you walk be. they plan to use information for targeted ads, but it's raising privacy concerns since shoppers watched. brook? >> very interesting. diane king hall at the new york stock exchange. diane, thanks. >> all right. thank you, brook. >>> still ahead, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. that's put to the true test wi beautiful bulldog. this could divide america. we'll show you the top dog. we'll show you the top dog. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™ with pea

>>walgreens will no longer sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. the company says the new policy goes into effect on september 1st move comes weeks after the fda criticized walgreens for selling tobacco 2 more miners than any other pharmacy chain waldron says the new policy should help reduce tobacco use among teens and young adults. the federal legal age to buy tobacco in the us is 18. several states have raised that to 21. >>now that the mueller report has been released california senator kamala harris says congress should take steps toward impeaching the president. but not all in the democratic party are on board with that including house speaker nancy pelosi who is urging her party to focus on investigations rather than impeachment. crawford catherine heenan spoke as bay area representative mark to suits so this only a weighed in on what should happen next. >>impeachment talk this has been having an flowing. back on we know kamel harris of saying impeach of nancy pelosi is saying simmer down what are your thoughts congress. >>as a matter of pri

we need to see when cvs reports. >> you're not buying the walgreens destruction. >> no. cvs -- i like cvs better >> i think its worst day in five years and down again today, new low. >> cvs had already been knocked down almost 20% from the beginning of the year and the distinction here is that cvs bought aetna i like that combination of pharmacy benefits management and insurance. >> so i think one thing that you see going on in healthcare is that money may be going out of thelarger pharmaceuticals and looking for a home and cvs, in particular, is one that's gotten knocked down to a level that is under eight times earnings it still has problems competing, the internet is a factor, but nevertheless, you've got a company selling at a very cheap multiple and if there is healthcare money that's got to find a place to be and it's not biotech companies selling at incredibly high multiples which continue to go higher, i think that's the other side of the barbell that can help. >> scott, can i go back to the semis for a second >> i'm glad you did because i want to bring up a coup

walgreens is one of the problems today.a very, kind of a flat forecast for growth, versus a 7% to 12% previous -- sorry, i'm stealing your thunder, andrew quickly, treasury yields spiked from low levels, obviously, but back to 2.50 -- >> spiked from 2.35. >> we were 2.30-something -- >> a week ago. >> now almost 2.5. >>> let's talk about what joe just mentioned dow component walgreens out with quarterly earnings just a short time ago now the drugstore chain operator reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.64 a share, 8 cents below estimates. revenue also falling below forecast as well and walgreens cut its full-year earnings forecast, noting market challenges that have accelerated. you're looking at that stock now down about 8% this morning and the big question now, is this a function of the retail issue? is this a drug issue how do you think about that? cvs also falling, down 2%. >> interesting, though, that cvs only down 2%, which at this point tells you investors are thinking some of this is walgreens-specific we'll see

so look at walgreens in the performance there i mean a lot of this was caused by the margins on their generic drugs and i would also say that they need to work on pushing additional products and partnerships one of them is that they have mentioned as a partnership with microsoft and they've also talked about putting c.b.d. products in their store which i think that could be huge as far as bringing in a younger customer base that would then spend more money within the store. get c.b.d. in there fixes everything daniel say the structure of options and some fair trading thanks for your time. catching up with the regs events that we previewed yesterday a day of voting in the british house of commons on four breaks it options it didn't really do anything to clarify the situation while none of the four options received majority support from the commons the option that lost by the smallest margin it was a proposal for a post brags that customs union with europe from him peking clarke of the ruling conservative party so that option went down very narrowly on a vote of two seventy three for tw

at walgreens, pickup returns, 8,000 locations across the country.d urban outfitters, you can return it to levi store or website by sending it back or you can go to wall greens and take care of it there, walgreens sees as great opportunity, convenient location, they are everywhere, they are going to make this work. nordstrom, they are testing it out in 7 locations in los angeles, that's their biggest market. they are teaming up with other brands to see if this works. tracee: maybe they'll pick something us. cheryl: lines in walgreens can be tempting. sleep habits actually hurt you. tracee: yes, they identified 20 myths and debunked them used falseness scale and team of sleep experts. some of the myths that we believe, one that alcohol is a sleep aid, however, research found here that, no, it is not going to help you fall asleep, also watching tv before bed, exercising within 4 hours of going to sleep and keeping warmer room, that's something that will also not help you fall asleep. cheryl: yeah, i can confirm especially the warm room. lauren: morning

walgreens actually is costing the dow 57 of those minus 82 points.ear that in mind. >>> do we have bitcoin? susan: back to 5,000. stuart: back to $5,000 a coin, i believe. why are you shaking your head? >> i think a lot of individuals watching -- people sitting at home lost a lot of money chasing bitcoin at home. i still don't see why anyone would buy bitcoin at 5,000 or 10,000. there are better places to invest. stuart: i wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. what can i say? walgreens. can we show that again? that's having a real impact on the dow. walgreens is down, look at that, down 13%. ouch. that was just an unfortunate outlook? >> bad outlook and it comes on the heels of cvs getting crushed by about 9% when they announced in february. this is more of the amazon effect. stuart: that's a drop and a half. 13% for a company like that? you can't go anywhere in america without a walgreens on a street corner somewhere. >> they have to give a better experience to the customer because the customer can sit at home and go on amazon from their phone. th

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now you see cvs, wall between's carrying -- walgreens carrying cbd products.s plant, it's just a different ca nap nowed, it's not as psychoactive. but it's a pretty big deal that you can walk into any given corner and buy cbd products. maria: so you started investing in this industry before really the regulatory environment caught up to it, and you're still this. you're lobbying congress right now about making this more legal in more states. the recent passing of the safe banking act by the house financial services committee, you think this was really one of the critical things. >> big deal. it was the first one across the line. you've got to remember for the last couple of years we haven't even been able to get a hearing on a marijuana bill in congress, because a gentleman named pete sessions from texas was the rules committee chairman. when a cannabis bill came up, he vetoed it when he lost his re-election bid, we knew we could get some interest. you have people investing millions of dollars in cultivation facilities, you have employees working in dispensari

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let's zig further into walgreen's disappointing forecast.t pointed to continued weakness in the uk during what it described as its most difficult quarter to date. it focused on the boots pharmacy chain in the uk which saw sales drop of more than 7% year over year. weak sales were further compounded by the pound slide amid ongoing brexit uncertainty. so certainly a number of multi-nationals feeling the pain. walgreen's joining a chorus of multi-nationals warning of weakness in europe over the past one month including urban outfitters and fedex and xpo. i want to end with turkish assets. the currency again moving sharply lower against the dollar in the last hour or so as erdogan says it will challenge the vote in tal liz over these mayor races in istanbul. istanbul had been seen as a political strong hold. he seems to be losing support there and that is hurting the market. guys, back to you. >> two days of ending with turkey says a lot. >>> let's get a news update as well. sue herera is back at hq. >> here's what's happening at this hour. at a

most of that was walgreens, a little deceiving. quarter miss on earnings. it also slashed the full year outlook. rest of the market looks okay. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." fighting for gains at the close there. the looks like it will close positive. positive territory for the fourth day in a row, marking their highest close of the year. more on the big market movers, here is what is new at

oh, the humanity finally, walgreens the drugstore chain reported a truly terrible quarter the front oftore's being eaten alive by amazon and the newly aggressive walmart as for the pharmacy, lots of high margin prescription drugs are being threatened by government reimbursement contracts. it had nothing to do with the larger economy, unless you mean the job market is so good it's causing them labor problems. to me, 3m and fedex are roaring thanks to a benign federal reserve. sure 3m could get hit again when it reports on the 25th they have auto exposure and a lot of chinese business so if the tariffs hurt then it could go lower but if we get a trade deal with china, then people overlook that weakness and they will buy this stock hand over fist buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. that's what drives me nuts about these kind of stories. for the most part the writers are good but we're having a white rabbit moment when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead. there's a huge disconnect between the current fundamentals and the way the stocks are trading. the next time that someone warns you we cou

how about the fact that walgreens, a huge outfit walgreens had horrendous earning, and it's just nowthing i mentioned over and over on the disastrous conference call guys, how come you're so late to digitize i'm not making a clarion call to buy these because sometimes there is some sweeping call that we don't know about yet. it's possible a couple of hedge funds are simply liquidating high stocks don't have any exposure to china. that's a classic rotation because people say talks conclude this weekend in a positive way but we have to now wait the see if we get to downgrade finally, perhaps my biggest fear is being realized. growth funds are raising cash to prepare for deluge of new ipos knowing that the next few deals will be done by firms that don't want another lyft on their hands, lyft being the new term for botched ipo. it makes sense trade web, a financial service/technology company that jumped gigantically and in an orderly fashion, just what you want if you own it i think some funds could be selling the cloud stocks so they have capital to participate in these ipos especially

walgreens is having the worst day in some five years, disappointing earnings and that stock is weighing heavy on the dow today. the nasdaq is coming back. look i looking for a little direction the last hour. there you go there's your market picture this moment small caps are off by one quarter of one percent you look at the dow at the top there, morgan. >> investors definitely seem to be digesting that rally we saw yesterday. wilfred frost and sara eisen are in washington, d.c they both have big interviews to bring us wilfred has bank of america and sara has the chair of the fcc and just spoke with larry kudlow sara >> let's kick it off with sara. >> go ahead. >> reporter: i was just going to tell you that everybody here -- the business community is now a little bit worried on the trade side of things now that the president has threatened to shut the u.s./mexican border. chamber of commerce, i did catch up with national economic adviser larry kudlow he was here to give him a speech and i asked him about the economic fallout he is actually looking for solutions. listen. >> we're watching

our focus is on with the walmart's, tractor supply, withdrawal green's of the wor walgreen's of the worldselves as a finance dough. so we are starting with the underlying real estate, driving to the residual value of that real estate, avoiding single purpose boxes. anything that is oversized today, we are decreasing square footage in terms of gla or a single purpose box we're avoiding if we enter a large box, like a walmart where we have no investment in the building so there are different investment points in the net lease space. for us store level economics, i think that it will be a misnomer >> joey, thanks so much. and congratulations again, 25th anniversary of the ipo >> appreciate it >>> final trades straight ahead. >>> chevron is starting the week on the heels of its worst day, but one is seeing an opportunity. r w,he on tradingnation.cnbc.com when you look at the critical issues facing our world, what do you see? we see breakthrough medicines getting to patients in record time. we see harnessing natural gas unleashing the promise of clean energy. we see engineers simulating the fu

the fda also called for a meeting with walgreens officials to talk about this while greens now says the new policy should help reduce tobacco use among teens and young adults. well, the federal legal limit to buy tobacco in the united states is the age of 18. a number of states have increased at age to 21. and we are still in the grips of an active flu season there have been 21 straight weeks of elevated flu season in the u s making the current flu season, the longest in 10 years. according to the cdc. the previous record was 20 weeks during the 2014 2015 season. but the number of states reporting widespread influenza did declined by almost half last week compared to the week before that's the good news. and the cdc says this flu season has been moderate in terms of its severity. >>a big story tonight, social security and medicare benefits could be seeing cuts as early as 2035 if congress doesn't take bold action soon. an annual federal report shows reserve support of the programs will be depleted. even the country's roughly 60 million retirement age workers at risk. a washington dc cor

walgreen's boots, they missed, stock down 13%. delta on the other hand beats, that is up almost 7% t will be hit or miss, no pun intended when these earnings start rolling out. >> i think ceos begged for this quarter. they tripped over themselves cutting estimates, cutting guidance during the last quarter so they lowered the bar. so it should be a fairly easy task to meet or beat those expectations. very important that they do exactly that. charles: david, donald, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a record, my man, 120,000 jobs were created, not 20,000. i'm with you. >> there you go. charles: see you guys later. we're moments away from fresh comments from president trump during his meeting with nato secretary-general at the white house. will the president keep up the pressure on nato allies to pay their fair share? pay those contributions they promised they would pay. house speaker nancy pelosi has advice for joe biden as a second woman accuses him of inappropriate behavior. i will tell you what it is when we return. ♪ ♪ ♪ i c

. >>> walgreens will no longer sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 21 starting in semi.g for selling more tobacco to more minors than any other pharmacy change. it won't change much here. siifan sta tha ae in s ansco, walgreens and others aren't allowed to sell tobacco products at all. the this is following eight deaths from airbags not deploying. they're installed, they will fou found in different vehicles. they might keep them from deploying during an accident. now a warning about passwords. the cyber security center analyzed passwords belonging to people worldwide had had been breached. here are the top top top top 123456789. kwerty. the top row of letters on the key board. the word password. and number five 111111. by the way, ashley and michael are the most common names used as passwords followed by daniel, jessica and charlie. i've never used that as a password. >> i have to think, i have to challenge my password. >> i'm going to change it to 11111. >>> would you give up bad habits if it meant living a decade longer? most american adults say no. they don't want to

how likely is it to happen we'll take a look. >>> and walgreens gets whacked the battle over plastic,tperforming big time this year that's all ahead in rapid fire first, the numbers. >> the numbers are walgreens, one of the main reasons why th

the dow the under performer, losing anyone point mainly because walgreens. a big drag that is on the price-weighted we're holding are some pretty big year to date highs come the dow affected mainly by walgreens , certainly different from those market cap weighted indexes. joe: not to let you read into today's action. .t feels like a holding pattern tomorrow, the next day, or friday, probably will have medium data. >> let's take a deeper dive into today's action with our market reporters. what are you watching yet >> am watching financials, even that they are completely flat on the day. it looks like investors are willing to maybe step in on the action. what you're looking at right here is xl them, some $350 million entered the fund yesterday. that tracksder fund the financial sector and that is one of the largest single day bumps of the year and it also comes of 6 -- after six straight days of outflows. it does look like investors are comfortable.et you cannstagram, essentially buy things directly through the instagram app. -- they rolled it out with compani